About this Item
First printing. Mylar protected dust jacket. Like new except the backboard and back flyleaf have small surface tears. The spine's crown and foot are slightly nudged. The DJ has no tears or chips. Seller Inventory # 4805
Bibliographic Details
Title: Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C-A.D. 400
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
The barbarians of antiquity, so long a fixture of the public imagination as the savages who sacked and destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complex―and far more interesting―factor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire. Thomas S. Burns marshals an abundance of archeological and literary evidence, as well as three decades of study and experience, to bring forth an unusually far-sighted and wide-ranging account of the relations between Romans and non-Romans along the frontiers of western Europe from the last years of the Republic into late antiquity.
Looking at a 500-year time span beginning with early encounters between barbarians and Romans around 100 B.C. and ending with the spread of barbarian settlement in the western Empire around A.D. 400, Burns removes the barbarians from their narrow niche as invaders and conquerors and places them in the broader context of neighbors, (sometimes bitter) friends, and settlers. His nuanced history subtly shows how Rome's relations with the barbarians―and vice versa―slowly but inexorably evolved from general ignorance, hostility, and suspicion toward tolerance, synergy, and integration. What he describes is, in fact, a drawn-out period of acculturation, characterized more by continuity than by change and conflict and leading to the creation of a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization.
Thomas S. Burns is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. His many books include The Ostrogoths: Kingship and Society; A History of the Ostrogoths; Barbarians within the Gates of Rome: Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians; and, with John W. Eadie, Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Store Description
I accept credit cards thru ABE.
All books may be returned in original condition for any reason within one month with prior notification.
The buyer is responsible for return shipping.
Free Shipping via Media/Book rate within the United States. USPS estimates that your item will arrive in 2 to 10 days. Most of our books are shipped in a box packaged so the book will not shift during transport. Pamphlets, magazines, some paperbacks, etc. will be sent in a stiff envelope.
I may contact you to let you know that extra shipping will be required for oversized books or sets of books.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: I cannot offer free shipping for international purchases. Please email me in advance of purchase so we can discuss the shipping costs and options.
Payment Methods
accepted by seller